Newmark Grubb Knight Frank  (NGKF) has added three real estate industry veterans to its operations in Westchester County and Fairfield County, Conn.
The company announced the hiring of Jacqueline Durels as senior managing director and Tim Rorick and Jodie LaRocque as managing directors.
Durels moved to NGKF from Colliers International in Stamford, Conn. As a landlord representative, she brought with her several agency assignments in Connecticut, including NC Land Co.”™s  approximately 42,000-square-foot 50 Locust Ave, property in New Canaan and The Mill, a 110,000 -square-foot office and retail complex in western Greenwich owned by Mill Management.
Durels in her career has completed more than 100 deals with an aggregate value of more than $480 million, according to NGKF. Greenwich tenants she has represented include Blyth Inc., Richman Group and Greenwich Associates in each of their 30,000-square-foot leases and Imperial Bank in its 20,000-square-foot lease. In Stamford, she represented BPG Properties and secured the buyer in the $38.5 million sale of 1010 Washington Boulevard to SL Green Realty Inc.
Rorick also joined NGKF from Colliers International in Stamford, where he was senior managing director. He has negotiated more than 100 deals valued at more than $100 million. They include Stamford Hospital”™s 52,000-square-foot lease at 1351 Washington Boulevard.
Since joining Newmark, Rorick was named by Normandy Real Estate Partners as exclusive leasing agent for Darien Green, a two-building, 114,000-square-foot property in Darien, Conn.
LaRocque previously was vice president at Barclays Capital, formerly Lehman Brothers, where she managed leasing transactions for the company’s New York headquarters and its more than 3 million-square-foot U.S. portfolio.
Before that, she was vice president and northeast region portfolio manager at Bank of America, overseeing a 10 million-square-foot portfolio, including more than 3,000 retail locations, and construction of the company’s midtown Manhattan headquarters.
James Ritman, NGKF executive vice president and managing director, said the company continues to grow its presence in the metropolitan New York region “by strategically hiring experienced brokers with a track record of success in targeted markets or niche industry areas.”
